2016

With Delegate365 version 8.0, besides many other features, a brand new feature has been added to Delegate365: Group OU’s. In short, a Group OU can be used by Scope Admins for using members of another OU they do not manage themselves.

Microsoft Ignite is Microsoft’s largest, yearly conference focused on the latest insights and skills from technology leaders and practitioners with more than 25.000 attendees and will take place in September 24–28, 2018 in Orlando, Florida.

2018-05-06Impressions of the Global Azure Bootcamp 2018 in LinzImpressions of the Global Azure Bootcamp 2018 in Linz

06.05.2018

On April 21st, this year’s Global Azure Bootcamp took place in 244 locations in 68 countries. We were happy to follow the invitation of coding-club-linz who – as in the last years - organized the community event perfectly in Linz in Austria.

2018-04-12Delegate365 reports at a glanceDelegate365 reports at a glance

12.04.2018

Recently, Delegate365 got a new reporting engine with version 7.3 and more reports have been added with version 7.4. In total, there are now 86 reports available (and likely more are about to come in the following versions).

So, you’re in the process of planning your GDPR compliance? We’ve got your back with this short summary and our offers to support!There is a lot of information around GDPR (the general data protection rules of the EU).

This week, the Microsoft Tech Summit roadshow took place in Frankfurt, Germany. On two days, from February 21-22, 2018, the cost-free roadshow informed about topics from Azure to Microsoft 365. We were happy to be part of the Tech Summit.

2018-02-15Delegate365 changelog version 7.4-additional reports with risk events and Microsoft Teams, OneDrive shared with and groups as membersDelegate365 changelog version 7.4-additional reports with risk events and Microsoft Teams, OneDrive shared with and groups as members

15.02.2018

With Delegate365 version 7.3 a new reporting engine was introduced. With this update, additional reports are available in Delegate365 version 7.4.

This weekend, on the January 20th, the first SPS North Germany/Bremen took place with great sessions in a very cool location. See some snapshots here.For #SPSBRE, we had a very cool location in the Bremen Harbor at Schuppen Eins (“shed one”).

Fall time usually is a very busy time in the IT business. So, we were happy to have a break and be part of SharePoint Saturday 2017 in Barcelona!#SPSBCN took place on the 28th October in beautiful Barcelona (see the details on the SPSEvents.

Delegate365 is registered as an app in the customer’s Azure Active Directory. When a Delegate365 setup is executed, it may be necessary that a new app is registered and is used from then on. So, what happens with old apps?

We have been busy during summer time and we have been developing and testing our new Delegate365 version 7. We added new features like the support for Office 365 Groups and further useful extensions and made a technical refresh behind the scenes.

It was a busy week! Ignite is the largest and leading event for IT-Professionals and Decision-Makers in the Microsoft universe. This year, the conference took place in Orlando, Florida, from 25th to 29th September.

It was a busy week! Ignite is the largest and leading event for IT-Professionals and Decision-Makers in the Microsoft universe. This year, the conference took place in Orlando, Florida, from 25th to 29th September.

2017-09-12Delegate365 changelog version 6.6-Mailbox features and loggingDelegate365 changelog version 6.6-Mailbox features and logging

12.09.2017

During summer time the next Delegate365 version was born that brings more mailbox and distribution group features, more sync rule options and some minor changes in logging and some fixes. See the details here.Delegate365 version 6.

We are delighted to announce that our CEO, Martina Grom, will be speaker at this year’s Microsoft Ignite conference. Ignite is Microsoft’s largest IT conference that will take place from September 25 - 29, 2017 in Orlando, Florida.

Well, it’s 1st of July and guess what? I got reawarded as a Microsoft MVP for the 5th time. And, I was accepted by two Product Groups for my contributions of the last year: I got the MVP award for Microsoft Azure and for Office Development. Wow!

Delegate365 provides various automation tasks. One of these is the new License Assignment rule to automatically assign Office 365 licenses to users based on their user properties or on their group membership.

Delegate365 runs as an app in Microsoft Azure on top of Office 365. You can connect to any Office 365 tenant with your Delegate365 portal. You just need a configuration password and a Global Admin user of your Office 365 tenant.

Delegate365 protocols all modifications of users, licenses and groups within the solution. This is essential to comprehend actions accomplished by Delegate365 administrators or by automated tasks. See how to work with that audited data here.

2017-06-01This was European Collaboration Summit 2017This was European Collaboration Summit 2017

01.06.2017

This week, the first European Collaboration Summit (ECS) took place in beautiful Zagreb. We enjoyed the community conference together with about 500 attendees and about 60 speakers and we had a blast! ECS (www.collaborationsummit.

In Delegate365 version 6.2 update we added an important feature to save Delegate365 licenses. With this Delegate365 version, there comes a new, powerful feature for more Office 365 automation. The new version number is 6.4.

Yesterday, on the 22nd April 2017, the fifth Microsoft Global Azure Bootcamp happened worldwide where user groups and communities organized events to learn about Azure and Cloud Computing. In Austria, the #GAB happened in Linz.

We enjoyed being part of aOSDay Dublin on March 15th, 2017, organized by the aOS Community. We had very interesting sessions from Securing Office 365 services, modern app development, groups, connectors to MyAnalytics and Office 365 toolsets.

2017-02-22Delegate365 changelog version 6.1-at a glanceDelegate365 changelog version 6.1-at a glance

22.02.2017

At the end of last year, Delegate365 version 6 was announced. We added a bunch of features and before updating all tenants, we wanted to improve some functionality. So it took some time to develop and test new features.

With Delegate365 version 6 there comes a slightly restructured menu. See the differences here. The existing left menu got a little bit disordered, so we reorganized it with groups to make it easier for admins to find related features.

We are pleased to announce that our long-term partner Christoph Wilfing is now part of atwork! Christoph Wilfing has been an independent IT consultant for several years and has worked intensively with atwork in various projects in the past.

We are very happy to announce that our both CEO’s, Martina Grom, CEO of atwork.at, and Siegfried Jagott, CEO of atwork.de, have been reawarded with the Microsoft MVP Award! Martina and Sigi have expertise in Microsoft Office 365 and are recognized experts, book authors and conference speakers.

The European SharePoint Conference took place in Vienna from 14th to 18th November 2016. We took this occasion to meet our friends from the Office 365 community in our home town Vienna for an informal come together aka #SharePintVienna.

2016-11-19Impressions of SharePoint Days Slovenia 2016Impressions of SharePoint Days Slovenia 2016

19.11.2016

End of October, Martina and I have been at SharePoint days Conference (SPD) Slovenia. This was our first SharePoint conference in Slovenia in the beautiful small town of Bled which is just across the southern border of Austria.

2016-09-13Delegate365 announcement about upcoming changes in version 6Delegate365 announcement about upcoming changes in version 6

13.09.2016

Delegate365 will receive a major update in October. This will be Delegate365 version 6 and will include a change in the audit logging system, a new license history and a preview for more custom automation features. Read the first details here.

Delegate365 can send notifications for specific operations. Here’s a short overview of roles and in which situations notifications are sent. Who can get notifications? In Delegate365 we have these roles a user can have for using the portal.

Summertime (and holiday season) is almost over and we were busy to advance Delegate365. In the last weeks we concentrated on smaller fixes which resulted in Delegate365 version 5.3.2. Major updates will follow in fall time.

Finally, we updated our new team photo to our Azure Active Directory (Office 365) login page… The latest and colorful atwork team picture. Here it is… Unfortunately, not all our coworkers are on that picture, but it’s a nice snapshot.

2016-08-10Check out the Microsoft Trust Center, the EU Model clause and moreCheck out the Microsoft Trust Center, the EU Model clause and more

10.08.2016

Do you plan to use Microsoft’s cloud services? See how data is secured and what mechanisms and certifications are used to fulfill organization’s need for compliance. Check out the https://www.microsoft.

2016-07-27Access or export mailbox content in Delegate365 and eDiscoveryAccess or export mailbox content in Delegate365 and eDiscovery

27.07.2016

We sometimes receive questions how users can access the content of another user’s mailbox. Well, in Delegate365 you can manage the permissions, but not the content. See how to access other mailboxes, how to export and what eDiscovery is for.

Just discovered the “Community Leaders page compiled by Communauté aOS” on docs.com with interviews with active members of the Microsoft communities! Martina and I are honored to be part of these communities with such great guys!

On Saturday, the 28th of May 2016, our second SharePoint Saturday Paris took place. Again, the organization team Patrick and Gokan arranged a perfect community event in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Yeah, they did it again! The team around Branka Obuljen Štritof, Adis Jugo, Toni Frankola and Nenad Trajkovski organized the fourth SPC Adriatics Conference coming next week, from May 31st to June 1st 2016.

Delegate365 version 5.2 has many new features (see here). In D365 version 5.3 we have a new feature for changing Office 365 licenses for users with already assigned OU’s. This article describes how this works in detail with an example, step by step.

2016-05-12Delegate365 changelog version 5.2-Dynamic Groups and new configuration rulesDelegate365 changelog version 5.2-Dynamic Groups and new configuration rules

12.05.2016

Delegate365 version 5.2 is here. We skipped version 5.1 because of many new features (which would have been version 5.1) and the OpenID Connect authentication update (which we changed in version 5.2). So we combined both updates in version 5.

2016-04-14Delegate365 now uses OpenID Connect - or how to run setup to update to version 5.2Delegate365 now uses OpenID Connect - or how to run setup to update to version 5.2

14.04.2016

The next version of Delegate365 will be version 5.2. This article describes the necessary steps to use the new version – and why. Maybe you have recognized that we skip version 5.1. Well, the reason is that we added some new features in version 5.

We at atwork are proud to update our Microsoft Partner logo with 8 gold competences! All in Gold now. Yeah! We are very proud to achieve so many business relevant competencies in the highest achievable level in the Microsoft Partner Program!

We recently added some more minor features to Delegate365 version 5 we would like to point out. More, new design themes. When opening the company menu Portal Admins can change the appearance of D365.Admins now can choose between 12 themes.

In the last two months, from December until now, we were busy with improving Delegate365. We did not communicate much in that time here because we did a lot of work in maintaining and optimizing the core project and not in features.

We updated our blog.atworkat with a slight redesign. Since we updated from Blogengine 2.x to 3.x some months ago, we wanted to brand our blog a little bit more in our old custom style. Yeah, the changes are small.

Delegate365 will be updated to version 4.5.3 this Friday. In this version resource mailboxes receive a new feature for controlling the AllRequestOutOfPolicy property (a feature the Office 365 portal does not provide).

With Delegate365 version 4.5.2 there come some improvements. See the details here. Sorting in all Lists: We changed the sorting in all lists of D365. Before that, sorting only sorted all visible items on the current page in the list.

This week, from 7th to 8th October, the collab365.event happened as Online Event. Martina and I were honored to be part of that great virtual event! We hope you liked our sessions No more SPO Public Websites. What´s next?

We are looking forward to the Collab365 Global Online Conference from 7th to 8th October! "This is your gateway to 24 Hours of Office365, SharePoint, Azure learning and more!" See the details here: http://www.collab365.

The first SharePoint Saturday Barcelona ever organized by SUG.cat took place on 26th of September, well of course in beautiful Barcelona. Find our session slides here. . The Twitter hashtag of the event is #spsbcn.

With Delegate365 version 4.4 we changed the auditing format in the portal. Auditing works in the same way as before and logs all operations, but the way how data is stored and handled has been changed. Read the details here.

Today we released Delegate365 version 4.3. Now the user types are shown in the users list to see these information at a glance. Custom views got new filters by user type and text search was generalized in the D365 portal.

2015-07-07Test the speed of the Azure datacenters from your locationTest the speed of the Azure datacenters from your location

07.07.2015

When using Azure services or products running on Azure like our Delegate365 it is important to place them in a datacenter near you to get a low latency. Currently Microsoft Azure is available in 17 regions worldwide, see Azure Regions.

The licensing of Delegate365 is at user base for the number of users that are to be managed with Delegate365. So if f.e. there are 10,000 users in AAD and you want to manage 2,000 in D365, then a license for 2,000 users would be sufficient.

In May Martina, I and our MVP colleague Sigi Jagott have been to Redmond and recorded some courses about Office 365 for Microsoft Virtual Academy. The recordings took two days for Martina and two days for Sigi.

2015-06-25Delegate365 changelog version 4.0-New Member Picker and FixesDelegate365 changelog version 4.0-New Member Picker and Fixes

25.06.2015

In Delegate365 version 4.0 we have made further improvements and some minor fixes. We introduced a new member picker with Auto-Suggest instead of the old dialog picker which now is accessible in the new Task Pane.

Delegate365 version 3.9.5 is out. We made some minor changes since the last version 3.9 (see here). See the changes here: Bulk create admins: When using D365 with many admins it can be some effort to create them.

Time flies! As soon as BUILD conference 2015 started it’s over now. Martina and I arrived a week ago in California and spent some days in Silicon valley (working there…) and north of San Francisco before attending the conference.

Are working with Office 365 and are you attending Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago in some days? Here’s your chance to engage six Office 365 MVP’s in an open Q&A panel discussion, see Microsoft Office 365 MVP Panel!

2015-04-08Check out our new Delegate365 videosCheck out our new Delegate365 videos

08.04.2015

We produced new videos showing the ease-of-use of Office 365 user and license management with Delegate365. On http://delegate365.com/videos there is one overview video and 10 videos explaining setup and the management with delegated administrators.

We at atwork developed a new solution named Delegate365. Delegate365 is a Web-based portal for managing users and licenses in Microsoft Office 365. For information about our product see our product website http://delegate365.com.

2015-03-19Delegate 3.4 will be released soonDelegate 3.4 will be released soon

19.03.2015

We are working hard on Delegate365 right now and are currently working on the next version 3.4 which will be released in the next days. We also are producing new short videos showing how to setup and how to work with Delegate365.

Shortly we launched Delegate365 version 3.3. With that release there came a new and very fast cloud service along which handles all Exchange operations. We upgraded this service yesterday into production.

As announced in our version 3.3 article we added another feature in the new module “assign licenses”. Now this list also shows all already assigned plans for each user. There´s a new column “AssignedPlans” showing the plans of the displayed users.

2015-03-13Communication in Today’s World of ToolsCommunication in Today’s World of Tools

13.03.2015

Today´s world offers a lot of ways to communicate. One one hand there are tools (or “Apps”) for nearly everything and on the other side users can get confused sometimes too choose the right way or the correct tool to reach the desired group(s).

The Office 365 Summit took place in Amsterdam these days (from 12 to 13th February). Office 365 summit is a free event to get in touch with Microsoft experts about the SaaS Microsoft cloud services around Office.

2015-02-06How to manage self service password reset for users in Delegate365How to manage self service password reset for users in Delegate365

06.02.2015

Delegate365 provides a user self service password reset (SSPR) function since version 2.1. If an user forgot his Office 365 password – and the admins allowed that function – he can self reset his password easily with D365.

2015-02-06How to use Office 365 MFA in Delegate365How to use Office 365 MFA in Delegate365

06.02.2015

In Office 365 IT Admins can define Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for their users to secure access for all or special user accounts. The good news is that Delegate365 supports the usage of MFA for the login process by default.

Delegate365 version 3.1 brings improvements and new features. As already announced in Delegate365 version 3.1 outlook we have some new modules and an unified user interface. Here´s a list of the main changes.

2015-01-17How to setup an Exchange Admin in Office 365 (and use this account in Delegate365)How to setup an Exchange Admin in Office 365 (and use this account in Delegate365)

17.01.2015

In large organizations it´s often useful to create an own Exchange administrator for performing tasks against the Exchange API´s, f.e. with PowerShell or with third party tools like our Delegate365 solution.

With the new Delegate365 version 3.0 “notification center” feature there comes a new built-in support feature. In case of questions or issues in working with D365 it´s very easy to contact atwork for help.

As described here we are pleased to announce the new Shared Mailboxes support in D365 version 2.9. Shared Mailboxes are an Exchange feature where many users can access a common mailbox, f.e. for departments or customer contact etc.

As described here we are pleased to announce the new synchronization function in D365 version 2.9. We completely rebuilt the sync process and added rules for automatic user assignment to specific OU´s. Why Sync?

2014-11-18Delegate365 changelog version 2.9 announcement–New Design, New Sync and Shared Mailboxes supportDelegate365 changelog version 2.9 announcement–New Design, New Sync and Shared Mailboxes support

18.11.2014

Delegate365 version 2.9 is a new milestone in the evolution process of our Office 365 Delegation Add-On product. Have a look at the great new features: New Design We completely rebuilt the design and optimized the website performance.

Since we often create Azure Websites I want to show a step-by-step guide how to use custom domains with your Azure Website. In my case I´m using the ISP GoDaddy.com and their web-interface and the Azure portal.

In Delegate365 version 2.7 there were some minor fixes rolled out. Style Sheets and client messages were updated. The user import with an CSV file had a problem with updating the new imported users in the users list.

2012-04-25"Microsoft Office 365 for small business""Microsoft Office 365 for small business"

25.04.2012

This April, the new book "Microsoft Office 365 in
kleinen Unternehmen, Microsoft Office 365 for small
business" was published by Microsoft Press! The book
was written
by our CEO, Martina Grom,
MVP for Office 365, and describes in simple,
understandable steps, how you get your business
started in the Microsoft cloud!
The book is available in bookshops and via Amazon and Microsoft Press at a
price of 24.90 Euro.

On xboxblog.at
the Microsoft Xbox team blogs on a regular basis about the
Microsoft game console and about other news on games and consoles
in general.
atwork transferred all the posts from the old web system into the
new blogging system. atwork provides the blogging platform,
customization and the design, plus it also provides the hosting and
ongoing technical and editorial support.
Happy blogging with atwork!

atwork.at is now available in English!
We are proud to present our english website! We renewed the
content management system and translated the content to english.
Now it´s easy to switch language with the flag-icons in the upper
right menu bar or directly with atwork.at/en for english or
atwork.at
for german version.

2012-01-23Vote for the most beautiful places in Austria!Vote for the most beautiful places in Austria!

23.01.2012

Microsoft, Nokia and Österreich Werbung have identified
nine "Österreich Botschafter" (Ambassadors of Austria) with our Facebook App. The nine winners received a brand
new Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 800. With this they will photograph
the most
beautiful places in Austria. The
winning "Ambassador" who has taken the best photo will win a
holiday in Almhüttendorf Turracherhöhe!

We are very pleased that Martina Grom, CEO of atwork,
received the MVP award for Microsoft Office 365 again!
"The Microsoft MVP Award is an annually awarded prize that is
given to the leading members of the Microsoft technical communities
around the world who share their valuable experiences from
both practice with others and with Microsoft.

2011-12-16atwork wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Yearatwork wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

16.12.2011

We wish all our customers, friends and partners a very Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year! atwork supports the fundraising
initiative of Microsoft Austria for the SOS Kinderdorf. We want to
thank you for your cooperation and look forward to a successful
2012!

We are happy to announce that we have launched www.partydreams.at, a one-stop
online shop for predominantly children's party supplies! The
website is available in both German and English. atwork provides
the atwork.cms, customization, hosting and ongoing technical
support.